SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) joined forces with the incredibly talented Eiso Kant to build the world’s most capable AI for software development. The pace of innovation in AI today is like nothing I’ve ever seen before in my career.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We’ve been in this uncertain time but should be coming out of it. How is ZoomInfo Integrating More Advanced AI? At ZoomInfo, they’re integrating more AI for personalization and prioritization. Before AI, you would come into ZoomInfo and be asked a litany of setup questions like: What are the right accounts?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

You have to be careful to pair that with someone strong to manage the relationship, that has more time and that also can be trusted. As a founder, you’ll just run out of time to properly manage key customers and partners yourself. Hire that person, and make sure they are someone the top customers can really trust and count on.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. David George: Sure.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

The three worlds are: B2B2C B2B2B AI And then there are folks in impacted categories like ZoomInfo , where things haven’t really improved. And there’s AI. Jason tweeted WTF because many things are happening in AI, like 200x ARR rounds. A lot of the funding rounds for AI feel like 2021 again, but only for this subset of people.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

If you’re running a smaller digital business, you may find it challenging to hire great talent. If you’re facing challenges winning the best candidates for your roles, or if you have a small number of roles and every hire really matters, then don’t miss this episode of Growth Stage. to working for smaller brands.

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USIO

JUNE 28, 2024

Announces Partnership with Usio as Preferred Payment Integration Partner for USA Customers Chattanooga, Tennessee – 17 June 2024 – ues.io, the leading no-code/pro-code platform for building enterprise applications with AI, today announced a strategic partnership with Usio , a trusted leader in integrated payment solutions. application.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Now, it’s time for AI.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’ve learned so much … most importantly, I think, that I love being a fractional CTO, a role that allows me to make use of everything I’ve learned and experienced over a long technology-focused career. What’s changing, rather, is the entity I’m delivering through – a new company called Crafty CTO.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam’s Corner [28:45]. Show Introduction [00:10].

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

“AI is fancy statistics. It is no better than the data that you feed into it, and it has no soul” Dee: That’s interesting to me, because I know you’ve spoken quite a bit before about the fact that AI isn’t going to replace, say, the white-collar workforce. Tim: There’s always a fear of change.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. I’m here to report that AI ack made a big contribution to getting me unstuck, moving, and launched, with what feels like enough quality to be credible. Time will tell. With words!

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You’ve got to learn about sales, about marketing and, otherwise, you need to hire a lot of other people around you to help. Eric Yuan: Because, at that time, we really needed a product.

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Although the specifics vary by the product or vendor, a digital experience platform is a single digital hub that allows a brand to use data and AI to create and deploy custom content experiences for consumers and integrate them for consumption across an array of digital and other ecosystems. What Is a Digital Experience Platform?

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

And whether they want to know more about security or scalability or automation or AI, the customers are really demanding that the vendors are coming to market with answers to these questions. Eyal Manor : So we spoke about security, but one of the biggest trend we alluded to was the emergence of new AI services.

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Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In my July essay An Appllama Week in AI , I mentioned that Apple “might get pinched” because they move much slower than the AI space is moving.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

That’s the advice, Petri Hollmén picked up on the more technical side of things from the opening session on Day 2 with Cal Henderson, CTO of Slack. Hire Game Changers to Propel Growth. We loved this one in particular, the importance of hiring, which he picked up at a side event Notion Capital ran. Full post. . Full post.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

After regenerating the image 18 times -and getting pretty much the same result every time – I gave up… According to AI, the ‘tech CEO’ is young, white, and male. Then I got hired at a tech company in Lithuania before I knew what tech even was. Sometimes once, sometimes twice, sometimes three times.

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Traditionally, a data annotation specialist is hired to perform this task manually, but numerous automated processes have also been developed to perform this activity through AI applications. Hiring an on-premises data annotator is a costly option. A remote CTO is effective in maintaining this perfectly.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

My last AI post hit the wire 31 days ago, after a week of agonizing over what to focus on, with Something Really Important seeming to land every other day and completely blow up my plans. One of my go-to AI trackers / prototypers is Simon Willison , creator of the Datasette open source project. But … AI’s not like crypto.

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. For me, when I’m assessing good hires, I look for some key things that I think can survive any of those things. Some of the emerging technologies or trends that I’m really interested in right now are machine learning and AI.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. Primarily I’m interested in companies that focus on SaaS , perhaps have some sort of AI angle to that. We were part of the office of the CTO.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 21, 2023

It felt like the rate of change in the generative AI space is picking up yet again this week. whimsicalism) I work in the field and they just are not hiring the people they need to be hiring. Apple will indeed get their LLM s**t together to some reasonable degre—in Apple Time. I’ll concentrate in two areas.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

In it, we cover the SaaS community’s most pressing questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), pricing, efficiency, and funding. On Wednesday, March 27th, SaaStr is hosting AI Day, you can sign up for free at this link. The biggest thing on many of our minds is what the future of AI will be in B2B. It’s disruptive.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 14, 2022

As the numbers of tech-based companies grow in number, there is a crucial point to note – Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption is also growing. They are looking at AI to handle certain operations within the organization. For most of these companies, AI is a part of their core. Are Organizations Already Hiring CAIO?

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Public valuations are still at a fraction of their 2021 peaks, but seed rounds are more expensive than ever. Investors should immediately engage with the CTO to assess their technical capabilities and potential, as great CTOs can demonstrate their exceptional skills quickly. Is it sustainable?

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Chris Orlob is the senior director of product marketing at Gong.io, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) platform to provide sales analytics. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. His insights on SaaS sales, hiring sales reps, and finding customers are a gold mine for anyone in the SaaS space.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

And you’ll have the applied intelligence, the AI in the product itself that will, they’ll make you smarter, right? I mean, if you think about, if we can build more intelligent products and leverage the AI, you’re literally going to have the answer to the tests from the technology itself. I have a one year contract.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

R&D spend is the lifeblood of technology companies—all the more so as companies race to build and incorporate AI into their products to remain competitive. To improve the efficiency of spend on cost of goods sold (COGS), most growth-stage leaders can optimize seat-based spend or renegotiate consumption-based contracts in a quarter or 2.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The platform leverages advanced AI in a way that fundamentally changes how sales teams operate. It’s not about bolting on AI as an afterthought; Operator was built from the ground up with AI as its core, designed to deeply understand the user and their target market. Generate robust account plans in a few seconds.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. AI is driving the next wave of requirements.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Most recently Yousuf was the CIO & VP of Customer Success @ Moveworks, the advanced AI built for enterprise providing automatic resolution of IT issues. During his time at the company, they raised over $108m from Lightspeed, ICONIQ, Kleiner, Sapphire, and Bain Capital. My advice is hire earlier rather than later.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Christine Spang, Co-Founder and CTO @ Nylas. Dave Walters, CTO @ Hired. Christa Diaz, Senior Director, Customer Success @ Hired. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO @ AgentSync. Brian Peterson, CTO @ Dialpad. Yashar Behzadi, CEO & Founder @ Synthesis AI. Karim Atiyeh, CTO & Co-Founder @ Ramp.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? Five people in the digital team were looking at blockchain projects and three people on that digital team were looking for long term AI transformation. Jason Lemkin: Box Shield has a rule-based hire, I can pick rules.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Discussed in this Episode: When to hire your first account executives Key traits to look for in early sales hires Structuring compensation for first sales reps Should you ‘hire the buyer’ to be your sales rep? 31:55 Hiring for grit, curiosity & determination. What does Joe look like at that time?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member. Like our CTO did it. As a key GTMfund partner, they equip sales and marketing teams with top performers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2025

Co-founders Dharmesh Shah (CTO) and Brian Halligan (Chairperson) shared at SaaStr Annual the unfiltered truth on building an SMB powerhouse, pivoting to product-led growth, and why the “M” segment is SaaS gold. We're gearing up to bring together 10,000 of the best in SaaS, Cloud and AI at 2025 [link] May 13-15 in SF Bay!

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